Mycobacterium
E271793
Mycobacterium is a genus of rod-shaped, often slow-growing bacteria that includes important human pathogens such as the causative agents of tuberculosis and leprosy.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mycobacterium canonical | 4 |
| Mycobacterium microti | 1 |
| Nocardia | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2504113 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mycobacterium Context triple: [Mycobacterium tuberculosis, genus, Mycobacterium]
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A.
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Mycobacterium tuberculosis is the pathogenic bacterial species that causes most cases of human tuberculosis, primarily affecting the lungs and spreading through airborne transmission.
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B.
Bacillus anthracis
Bacillus anthracis is a Gram-positive, spore-forming bacterium that causes the disease anthrax in humans and animals.
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C.
Yersinia pestis
Yersinia pestis is a highly virulent bacterium responsible for plague, including the historic pandemics of bubonic, septicemic, and pneumonic forms.
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D.
Ricketts family
The Ricketts family is an American family of investors and philanthropists best known for owning and revitalizing the Chicago Cubs Major League Baseball franchise.
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E.
Monera
Monera is a former biological kingdom that comprised all prokaryotic, single-celled organisms such as bacteria and archaea, distinguished by their lack of a true nucleus and membrane-bound organelles.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mycobacterium Target entity description: Mycobacterium is a genus of rod-shaped, often slow-growing bacteria that includes important human pathogens such as the causative agents of tuberculosis and leprosy.
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A.
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Mycobacterium tuberculosis is the pathogenic bacterial species that causes most cases of human tuberculosis, primarily affecting the lungs and spreading through airborne transmission.
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B.
Bacillus anthracis
Bacillus anthracis is a Gram-positive, spore-forming bacterium that causes the disease anthrax in humans and animals.
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C.
Yersinia pestis
Yersinia pestis is a highly virulent bacterium responsible for plague, including the historic pandemics of bubonic, septicemic, and pneumonic forms.
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D.
Ricketts family
The Ricketts family is an American family of investors and philanthropists best known for owning and revitalizing the Chicago Cubs Major League Baseball franchise.
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E.
Monera
Monera is a former biological kingdom that comprised all prokaryotic, single-celled organisms such as bacteria and archaea, distinguished by their lack of a true nucleus and membrane-bound organelles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | bacterial genus ⓘ |
| acidFast | acid-fast ⓘ |
| antibioticResistance | includes species with intrinsic drug resistance ⓘ |
| biosafetyConcern | includes species requiring BSL-3 containment ⓘ |
| cellShape | rod-shaped ⓘ |
| cellWallComponent | mycolic acids ⓘ |
| cellWallProperty | lipid-rich cell wall ⓘ |
| class |
Actinobacteria
ⓘ
surface form:
Actinomycetia
|
| clinicalRelevance | major cause of global infectious disease burden ⓘ |
| diseaseCausedByMembers |
disseminated disease in immunocompromised hosts
ⓘ
leprosy ⓘ nontuberculous mycobacterial lung disease ⓘ skin and soft tissue infections ⓘ tuberculosis ⓘ |
| family | Mycobacteriaceae ⓘ |
| genomeType | circular double-stranded DNA ⓘ |
| gramStain | Gram-positive-like ⓘ |
| growthRate | often slow-growing ⓘ |
| habitat |
animal host
ⓘ
human host ⓘ soil ⓘ water ⓘ |
| includesSpecies |
Mycobacterium abscessus
ⓘ
Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex ⓘ
surface form:
Mycobacterium africanum
Mycobacterium avium ⓘ Mycobacterium bovis ⓘ Mycobacterium chelonae ⓘ Mycobacterium fortuitum ⓘ Mycobacterium kansasii ⓘ Mycobacterium leprae ⓘ Mycobacterium marinum ⓘ Mycobacterium self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Mycobacterium microti
Mycobacterium tuberculosis ⓘ Mycobacterium ulcerans ⓘ |
| kingdom | Bacteria ⓘ |
| metabolism | obligate aerobes (most species) ⓘ |
| motility | non-motile ⓘ |
| namingAuthority | Lehmann and Neumann ⓘ |
| order | Mycobacteriales ⓘ |
| oxygenRequirement | aerobic ⓘ |
| pathogenicity | includes important human pathogens ⓘ |
| phylum |
Actinobacteria
ⓘ
surface form:
Actinobacteriota
|
| reproduction | binary fission ⓘ |
| sporeFormation | non-spore-forming ⓘ |
| stainingMethod |
Ziehl–Neelsen stain
ⓘ
surface form:
Kinyoun stain
Ziehl–Neelsen stain ⓘ |
| stainingProperty | resistant to decolorization by acid-alcohol ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
| yearDescribed | 1896 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Mycobacterium Description of subject: Mycobacterium is a genus of rod-shaped, often slow-growing bacteria that includes important human pathogens such as the causative agents of tuberculosis and leprosy.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Mycobacterium microti
this entity surface form:
Nocardia